Although the Qi army, which had been prepared for a long time, was a little panicked, it still persisted in fighting. On the Qi army's temporary position at the entrance of the village, a row of Qi army soldiers were holding Cyric 1 rifles and heading towards the location of the Tang army tanks. shooting wildly in the direction.
Just after hearing the sound of machine gun fire next door, the Qi army commander here issued an order to defend the village.
Then the Qi army began preparations, choosing the fence and some earthen walls at the end of the village as bunkers, deploying soldiers and arranging machine gun positions.
In addition, relying on the village, the Qi army also deployed some soldiers on both sides of the village. Even behind these soldiers, two artillery had been set up.
This is not Qi's defeated army, but the complete Qi army that has not yet participated in the war! They are more combat effective than those on the battlefield, you can clearly tell by looking at their equipment!
Generally speaking, if it is not the main force of the Qi Army, it will not be equipped with new gadgets like cars. Not to mention, after being equipped with many cars, this Qi army soldiers also had a large number of horses.
As soon as the battle began, Liu Guozhu felt that his attack seemed a bit hasty. Because when he stuck his head out to observe the enemy's situation, he saw a huge number of Qi soldiers.
Just looking at the number of enemies, it's not something that a dozen Tang troops plus one tank can handle.
But the battle has already begun, and it's too late to say anything now. Liu Guozhu knew that at this time he could only attack tentatively first, and if that didn't work, he would cover the infantry's retreat.
The machine gun directly in front of the tank was firing continuously. In fact, the electromechanical crew did not see the real target. They just followed the order and kept wasting their own ammunition.
Suppressive shooting actually had a certain effect. The Qi army was also a little lost. Their actual casualties were actually about zero, but the continuous gunfire did cause them a lot of psychological pressure.
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Next to the tank, the Tang Army infantry had a better view. They soon discovered that there were a large number of enemy troops moving in the village, so they immediately launched a counterattack.
After the riflemen found the bunker, they began to target and fire at the Qi soldiers. Their shooting skills were quite superb and knocked down some Qi soldiers who were still looking for bunkers.
At this time, Tank No. 4 suddenly fired with a loud bang. The sound startled the surrounding Tang Army soldiers. Everyone looked at the tank that was firing, and saw a cloud of white smoke rolling around the tank's muzzle.
A powerful cannon hit the wall of an earthen house in the village, leaving a large hole in it. The huge explosion blew off the roof, and the tiles fell down, making a crackling sound on the ground. .
Because there were so many people, Qi troops flooded the entire village. There was also a group of Qi troops stationed in the house that was hit by the shells.
In the end, this was simply a shot of intimidation, and it blew away more than a dozen Qi soldiers and buried them under the rubble.
"Thud, tug, tug!" Finally I couldn't bear it any longer. On the Qi army's position, a hidden Maxim machine gun started firing.
The bullet hit the No. 4 tank, which was full of bullet marks, and splashed sparks. However, an attack of this level obviously could not injure Liu Guozhu's tank.
After firing a shot, Liu Guozhu ordered the tank to continue moving forward and approach the village to give the enemy a greater sense of oppression.
He knew that if his tank did not continue to move forward, it would be impossible for the Tang Army soldiers following his tank to get close to the village amid a hail of bullets.
Only when his tank attracts the enemy's attention can the infantry following him find the opportunity to continue advancing, get close to a suitable position and continue firing.
At this moment, a shell roared past their heads, passed over the No. 4 tank, and exploded far, far away.
"What kind of weapon is that?" The infantry platoon leader, who was holding his rifle and listening to the harsh sound that cut through the air just now, looked at the soldier next to him in surprise.
"I don't know either!" The infantryman next to him raised his rifle, fired a round and then retracted it, while pulling the bolt and replied.
"That thing is aiming at our tank! Where is it! Find it! Find it!" the infantry platoon leader ordered loudly and depressedly.
If the tank covering them was destroyed here, none of them would be able to escape. Without the cover of tanks, how could they withdraw from the battle and return to where they started?
So he had to risk his head, and on the battlefield where bullets were flying, he kept looking for the location of the weapon that the enemy had just fired.
"Where is it... where is it..." He whispered softly while looking inside the village where figures were swaying. Finally, on the other side of the village, he saw a piece of dissipating smoke.
"Where is it!" He just screamed out excitedly when a bullet hit his side. The dirt flew up and hit his neck with burning pain.
The sudden attack scared him so much that he retracted his head. When he touched his neck with his hand, he saw some blood on his fingers.
It was just a scratch... He spat on his fingers happily, and then rubbed his fingers on the hem of his clothes.
At this time, Liu Guozhu on the tank was still huddled in the tank because he was wearing a radio headset, and did not hear a fatal shell that had just flown over his tank.
He was still concentrating on commanding his loader, looking for an opportunity to load another grenade, and then fire a shot at the Qi army in the village.
Soon, his tank stopped again, and then the loader began to load new shells, and the gunner was also searching for new targets.
Almost in the next second, he stepped on the shooting pedal, and the 75-gun fired again, blowing away a low wall in the village and knocking the Qi soldiers behind the wall off their feet.
Liu Guozhu had to stick his head out again to check the results of his fire, but this time he just stuck his head out, and a shell directly hit the body of the No. 4 tank where he was.
This shell coincidentally hit the upper right corner of the No. 4 tank's body, exactly where the top of the body meets the front armor and side armor!
The powerful and heavy cannonball hit the place at an obtuse angle, then refracted at a strange angle and flew towards high places.
Everything that happened in the flash of lightning shocked Liu Guozhu. He didn't even have time to react, he only saw a golden light flashing in front of his eyes.
But even through the headphones, he still heard the sound of the shells and felt the vibration of the car body.
He knew that something had just hit his tank, but he was just lucky that it did not penetrate his tank.
"Oh!" He realized that there was something in the village that could threaten his tank, so he forgot to avoid it, and stuck his head out in a dull and crazy way to look for the target who was firing at him.
Just when he was looking for this threat, he saw a figure rushing to the tank, climbed onto the tank body in a few moments, pointed at the target in the distance and shouted loudly: "Over there! Where there is white smoke! There’s a cannon over there!”
The person who came was the infantry platoon leader. Regardless of the bullets flying everywhere, he climbed onto the tank and told Liu Guozhu the information he had observed.
Liu Guozhu looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough he saw a cannon facing him. He immediately pressed the intercom to remind his driver to drive, and at the same time ordered the gunner to rotate the turret.
The gunner hurriedly rotated his turret, and the commander suddenly started the No. 4 tank. Caught off guard, the infantry platoon leader who was getting out of the car cursed and rolled out of the car.
Then another artillery shell struck, but this time the opponent obviously did not expect that the No. 4 tank would suddenly continue to move forward. The shell flew directly and passed by the No. 4 tank with a roar again.
The Qi army in the village seemed to be frightened by the Tang army's life-threatening momentum, because they had never encountered an enemy who braved the hail of bullets to communicate.
However, amidst the shouts and curses of the officers, they continued to cheer up and began to use more intensive firepower to block the Tang army's continued attack.
The directional machine guns have suppressed the machine gun positions in the village that are constantly firing. At the same time, Liu Guozhu has also pointed his turret at the enemy artillery that is constantly firing over there.
Just now, in order to cover the No. 4 tank and adjust the turret, a Tang Army soldier opened fire at the Qi Army artillery hidden in the corner, exposing his position and taking a shot in the shoulder.
His injury was valuable because he shot a Qi Jun who was controlling the artillery, so that the artillery has not fired shells again.
In this short period of time, Tank No. 4 had already aimed its turret at the hidden artillery over there and fired the third shell.
The shell accurately hit the position of the Qi army's artillery, and immediately blew away the barrel and blew up the surrounding Qi army.
The battle was still going on, and Liu Guozhu had no time to appreciate his results. He ordered his tank to move forward, then directed the turret to straighten, aimed at the village and fired again.
The Qi army found that it could not stop the tank's advance, and the entire defense line was shaken instantly.
The Qi soldiers stationed at the edge of the village began to retreat toward the interior of the village. The Maxim machine guns that had been suppressed were abandoned, and the surrounding Qi soldiers had all run away.
Frightened war horses ran wildly in the streets and alleys, and the commanders of the Qi army seemed to have discovered that the situation seemed to be no longer under their control.
So they began to shrink their troops, preparing to continue to resist relying on the ruins of the village. They didn't dare to retreat because this was a nearby Qi military-level headquarters, and they didn't dare to throw away so many documents and equipment and just run away.
